Herta Müller takes Nobel prize for literature
The 2009 Nobel prize has been awarded to Herta Müller, for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed' with 'the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose'
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 October 2009 12.10 BST
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The winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature, Herta Müller. Photograph: Jack Mikrut/ EPA
German novelist Herta Müller, who received death threats in her native Romania after she refused to become an informant for the secret police during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, has become only the 12th woman in 108 years to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Praised by the Nobel judges for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose", Müller returns constantly to the oppression, dictatorship and exile of her own life in her novels, essays and poems.
In a statement this afternoon Müller said she was "delighted" by the award, and "still couldn't believe it".
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Herta Müller takes Nobel prize for literature
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